vmware-cmd was included in earlier version of the ESX Service Console. A vmware-cmd command has been available in the vCLI package since ESXi version 3.0.

Important vmware-cmd is not available in the ESXi Shell. Run the vmware-cmd vCLI command instead.

Older versions of vmware-cmd support a set of connection options and general options that differ from the options in other vCLI commands. The vmware-cmd vCLI command supports these options. The vCLI command also supports the standard vCLI - -server, - -username, - -password, and --vihost options. vmware-cmd does not support other connection options.

Important vmware-cmd is a legacy tool and supports the usage of VMFS paths for virtual machine configuration files. As a rule, use datastore paths to access virtual machine configuration files.

The vmware-cmd vCLI command supports only the following connection options. Other vCLI connection options are not supported, for example, you cannot use variables because the corresponding option is not supported.